Appalling Quote by Herman Gorter

Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.

— Anton Chekhov

“One more impression I gathered from that work of my boyhood, an impression which I did not formulate till afterward, and which will probably…

— Peter Kropotkin

Because in Russia you were able to triumph with the help of a large class of poor peasants, you represent things in such a…

— Herman Gorter

In far Eastern Russia, there's just some towns that time has forgotten. I guess they used to maybe be industrial or something that are…

— Ewan McGregor

There are things in Russia which are not as they seem.

— Georgy Zhukov

Xenophobia is fairly widespread in Russia.

— Alexei Navalny

Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever…

— Natalia Vodianova

“One day a greasy landowner will drag the peasants before the Zembro Court for trespass, and the next, if it's a holiday, he will…

— Anton Checkov

I'm not a Russian sympathizer, but after being in Russia for that long many years... like, look... they way they think isn't wrong, it's…

— Diana Taurasi

“Granted, many of them replied, that socialism may not result in riches for all but rather in a smaller production of wealth; nevertheless the…

— Ludwig von Mises

“Back in Russia we were dirt-poor. Here in the West we are still poor but have risen above the dirt to tower alongside stalks…

— Vera Nazarian

“The rich cannot eat money,’ dryly observes a Russian proverb, ‘so it’s just as well that there are poor folk to grow their food.”

— A.C. Grayling